Yesterday, Jen and I watched a show about that family who has 17/18 children and holds church in their house. It was a special episode where the oldest boy asked a girl who he met at a homeschool conference to marry him. He had to do that, because there apparently is no dating without engagement, but now that they're engaged, they're allowed to participate in courtship, which means holding hands and going on chaperoned dates. He had wanted to ask this chick for a while, but he couldn't because she had made a promise to the lord that she wouldn't get involved in romantic liasons until age 20, and her father wanted her to keep that promise. So on her 20th birthday the boy surprised her in a restaurant called GatorLand and presented her with a .5 carat ring before whisking her (and chaperoning little sisters) back to Arkansas to meet his dozens of brothers and sisters and check out the house they'll live and procreate in. Although they are engaged, and clearly interested in fucking each other, they are not allowed to kiss.

there really are 2 americas.

I'm glad I live i the one that makes out.